Bottle Caps For Cancer Treatment

I live in shelby north carolina.

Bottle caps for cancer treatment.

My family and i have been collecting the caps for about three months now russel said. For the past six months russel s great aunt has been fighting lung cancer. If it is for cancer treatments i am a 4 year cancer survivor and would send then where they are needed. This so broke my heart and inspired me at the same time.

She must have been doing a good job because she had over 5 00. The american cancer society. When this chain message caught on especially in the regions of virginia and west virginia large corporations like walmart got involved in the bottle cap raising efforts. Soda bottle caps are made from a type of plastic called polypropylene.

If so please let me know. It s a versatile material that is valuable to recycling operations. In the past an email was circulated that asked individuals to collect large numbers of bottle caps that would be redeemed for one chemotherapy treatment for a needy patient. However one member of the ollu faculty and staff has found a way to help provide chemotherapy in exchange for a small item that we dispose of everyday.

After extensive research the american cancer society has concluded that the plastic bottle caps for chemo program is a hoax. One day she walked in the house with a handful of money and bottle caps. This email claims that a large number of bottle caps some say 1 000 others 1 500 or even 10 000 can be redeemed for one chemotherapy treatment for a patient in need. Kindhearted residents of the orangeburg area have been collecting plastic bottle caps thinking they were helping to pay for chemotherapy treatments for a sick child.

My family has been saving plastic bottle caps a woman at church was collecting them and she said they have enough. The claims in the message are untrue. Does anyone else know anything about this. Hoax collect bottle caps for free cancer chemotherapy treatment outline.

The origin of the hoax remains unclear but it is similar to other. When i asked her where she got the money she told me that she was going door to door selling bottle caps to the neighbors so we could go to disneyland. Bottle caps cannot be exchanged for free chemotherapy. Fortunately a nurse who worked for the hospital told her family about how they could collect plastic bottle caps to fund the treatments.

Circulating messages request people to save all types of bottle caps because the caps can be exchanged for free.